OK so its been about 10 years since I built a PC, considering my last PC was a laptop based on the specs of my aforementioned desktop. Now the Dell Inspiron XPS Gen 2 is not a bad computer (Pentium M 2ghz, 2 GB ram, 250 GB hd) in fact I am using it right now to type this up so it cant be to bad! However I decided last fall I needed an upgrade. So I looked at the problems I had run into on my laptop/Desktop and started writing things down that i liked and what i wanted to improve on with newer technology. Here is what I finally came up with to solve the issues I had written down!

Now in hind sight and all the research i have done here in the past couple of months this technology is what 2 yrs old? at most? so its not cutting edge by any means but i think its a good starting point with plenty of room to upgrade. From what i have read on the forums in the past day i should be able to keep it overclocked to at least 4.2 GHz with little problems. but then again i am putting this up here for opinions, thoughts, flames. tell me what you think!? Maby room for improvement later?!

UPDATE: Ok here is the Link To the current Build!
UPDATED: 8/21/11 Current To Do ListEdited by Darkbluexplorer - 8/21/11 at 10:02am

So I receive the processor today and hard drive I'm itching to put those in and get everything in the box in then put the rest when I get it but I think I should wait any ideas?
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Ok Pics of product.. nothing put together yet..

Hard Drives!
SSD
Mother Board
Processor
1200 Watts of Goodness!
Login Method AND web conferencing
2GB of Video for only 3 monitors! should be fun!
Only have tested two of the monitors need to get the other out but waiting on the monitor stand at the beginning of next month
One Case in Box. will review more of the case when i start adding hardware. Im going to be almost short every space will be filled but considering the case is 80% mesh this aught to be intresting for cooling!Edited by Darkbluexplorer - 7/27/11 at 7:30pm

Yes you will be able to oc that cpu to 4-4.2ghz easily. I doubt the h80 will give you any improvements on cooling vs h70/920. But its a good choice. My only "comment" is on the gpus. As these gts450s are limited to only sli, which you already did so no improvements in the future. Did you know that 1 oc-ed 460 (900+mhz) can keep up with these 2 cards? You could have gotten a gtx570 and sli later and tri-sli later. Or 1 gtx 580 and do the same thing. But with the price of 2 gts 450s you could have gotten a much stronger and more "future proof" gpu.Edited by MoBeeJ - 7/27/11 at 8:30am

If you only have the CPU and RAM without the case and mobo then what are you going to put them into? Also post pics of all the boxes.

Well I do have everything but the ram, tv turner card, monitor stand, cpu paste, and tv tuner card. I am going to place the order for them next week. ill get pics up tonight!Edited by Darkbluexplorer - 7/27/11 at 5:54pm